A ROBUST NEIGHBORHOOD TRUNCATION APPROACH TO ESTIMATION OF INTEGRATED QUARTICITY
积分四次变差估计的稳健邻域截断方法
We provide a first in-depth look at robust estimation of integrated quarticity (IQ) based on high-frequency data. IQ is the key ingredient enabling inference about volatility and the presence of jumps in financial time series and is thus of considerable interest in applications. We document the significant empirical challenges for IQ estimation posed by commonly encountered data imperfections and set forth three complementary approaches for improving IQ-based inference.…